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Pumpkinbot · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 8:53 pm Post subject: Looping in Anvil Studio

In this song, there's an intro sort of thing, then the part I want to loop. How do I loop only that part?

Baconlabs · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:47 pm Post subject:

There's a page on the wiki that discusses this.
Also don't expect MIDI loops to work.

EDIT: Okay, this time I'll try to be helpful. What you could do is split the track into two files. Play the intro as part of a scripted sequence or scenario, approximate the time it'll take for the song to end, then switch over to the second piece that will loop as normal Ambient music. This does not work so well if you're not dealing with a fixed scenario.

Bagne · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:53 am Post subject:

I've been having the same problem.

I've never seen that wiki article ... interesting. So MIDI loops may eventually be fully supported by the OHR.

I think you can do this kind of looping with .xm music, but I'm still on the learning curve for that stuff. Yeah, you need to make your own instruments with .xm and it's not a picnic to edit the files ... etc etc etc.
I've just been including my introductions in the overall loop - oh well.
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Raekuul · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:28 am Post subject:

Geez, I finally decide that I'm gonna need this, and someone goes and asks my question for me.

It kinda sucks that it's not supportable in the native backend, though.
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Pumpkinbot · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:02 am Post subject:

1. So MIDI loops won't work in OHRRPGCE?
2. If they do, will it work in battles?
3. If not, could you loop a .BAM file?

Baconlabs · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:41 am Post subject:

Moogle1 · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:53 am Post subject:

BAM looping was always supported. MIDI looping is unsupported and poorly documented. This is not likely to change ever.
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Pumpkinbot · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:00 pm Post subject:

Moogle1 · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject:

That's because BAM is proprietary to the OHR. It's also pretty much deprecated.
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Baconlabs · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:28 pm Post subject:

BAM actually stands for Bob's Antiquated Music.
As in Bob the Hamster.
Also that middle one might not be exactly right.

Pumpkinbot · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:43 pm Post subject:

Rimudora · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:58 pm Post subject:

Converting your midi to a bam probably won't help. You have to write a BAM from scratch with notate.exe if you want to add loops (since notate.exe couldn't edit BAMs directly, if I recall.) Plus, BAM files don't work on most computers and sound worse than MIDI anyways.

Probably the best thing to do is to copy and paste the looping sections of your MIDI several times. If a song is over ten minutes, it probably won't play for long enough for the song to loop.

Pumpkinbot · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:17 pm Post subject:

TMC · Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:52 am Post subject: